OKAY...THIS BLOGSPOT SUCKS. PICS FIRST AFTERALL....GRRRRRR

 

SPORTING MY OLD WEDDING GOWN

THE EXPLANATION OF THIS SHOT IS IN THE FOLLOWING POST

SO REALISTIC!!!!!!

ON THE WINERY TOUR BUS WITH THE GIRLS

THERE SHE IS WITH ALL HER MYLESESSSS

JESS AND APRIL PLAYING DRESS UP WAY BACK IN THE DAY IN FRONT OF OUR BIG HOUSE DOORS

IT'S ALL OVER

 Well April's bachelorette was EPIC!!!  OMG!!!  I think she was almost overwhelmed by the love, the food, games, gifts and surprises.  There is no doubt they had a blast.  She still isn't over it!!  What an amazing bunch of girls!!

Aryn took April to the event.  But before getting there Aryn was taking her to lunch in a special British pub near Yellow Point, not far from where the giant mansion the girls had rented for the week end was situated.  And unbeknownst to April, Monte and I headed down there and got there before them to surprise April.  So we were sitting there as they walked through the door and shocked her!!!  We then proceeded to have a fantastic lunch and a wonderful visit.  It was perfect.

I will mention one thing that happened at the party. I had her take my wedding dress.  She has it stored away and her friends and her use to dress up in it for  fun.  The first morning the girls made her put it on and then come down the elaborate curved stairs to fourteen girls, all dressed like Myles with masks with Myles's face on them held over their faces.  They were all standing in a row on an upper balcony, dead silent and staring down at her.  Her reaction was so extreme!!!  It totally unnerved her!  And from that point on 'Myles' went everywhere they went!  It was so funny!!! I will attempt to put a pic on at the end here.

I buy assured loading tickets for the ferry.  I do not want to be stuck in lineups waiting for a ferry with a one or two sailing wait if I was unable to get a reservation or if there is an emergency with one of the kids.  The books of ten have always been somewhat expensive.  Right now the ferry costs about sixty five bucks one way.  The book of ten has just gone up to 180 per ticket!  Crikey!!!!  I was thinking I may have to borrow the sum from my LOC.

But...I went into the bank to close out a dormant chequing account I had at that same bank in Kamloops.  I got notice if I didn't do so by such and such a date, any money would go to the government.  I thought there was probably about thirty dollars in there.  So I popped into the bank to have the account activated and transferred to Port.  And guess what?  There was a nice whack of money in that account!!!  There was just enough to pay for the assured loading booklet!!!  Made my day it did!!!  And to think the government might have got hold of it!!

Ange's birthday was a few days ago.  All she wanted was a turkey dinner.  She hadn't had a turkey dinner for quite a while.  So I had her invite a friend and I found a grocery store in town that had frozen turkeys and off I went into mode dinner party!

So I set the table the day before....to keep people from messing the table up!  And this year I decided I would not be frantic about it but organized and leisurely.  I had ordered everything I needed a couple of days before and kept the stuff in the grocery bags instead of putting all the stuff in various places and then not finding them easily later.  I will be doing that again!  I kept my kitchen chair cleared off, no stuff stored in the oven that had to be taken out sitting on the chair.  My butt was going to intermittently be parked on it!  I didn't start cooking and prepping until after I put the turkey in the turkey roaster, although I did make the stuffing the night before.  By dinner time I wasn't frazzled or tired.  Even my back and tailbone weren't too bad!  And the best part of a turkey dinner????? the smell of that stuffed bird roasting!!!!

  But I will admit that even though it was pleasant and relaxing compared to what I normally am like making a big dinner, it wasn't as much fun.  I love the three day circus culminating in pure exhaustion and brain deadness that follows chaos.

Thats it for this post.  I hope all is well with everyone.  TFL and TTYL

I am going to make a separate post with a couple pictures.  This stupid blogspot is NOT    WORKING!!!!!